Police claim evidence is mounting that Shrien Dewani is implicated in the murder of his beautiful wife, but have yet to suggest a credible motive

Slideshow: Honeymoon murder

A picture of the happy couple on their wedding day taken from the Facebook tribute page to Anni Dewani who was murdered whilst on her honeymoon in South Africa

Photograph: Handout

Five weeks ago Sneha Hindocha watched her cousin Anni walk around the sacred
fire as she underwent the Saptapadi, the seven strides that signify the
first steps into a Hindu marriage, at a luxury hotel near Mumbai.

Anni, 28, born and brought up in Sweden, was marrying Shrien Dewani, a
good-looking businessman from Bristol who would be, she had told Sneha, the
“perfect husband”.

Sneha saw Dewani again on Wednesday — in the dock at Westminster district
court, where he stood accused by the South African police of conspiring to
have Anni murdered while on honeymoon in Cape Town. Dewani, 30, who denies
the accusation, looked bewildered. His chin was thickly stubbled.
Benzodiazepines, sedatives for depression, had turned his skin blotchy and
grey. The wealthy Hindocha and Dewani families were together again in the
courtroom, but divided. One official said he had never felt such “icy
tension” in court.